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Parent and sub item issue

I am creating a general to do list for all my projects. They have the parent task and sub tasks.

I am then linking this database inside every individual project page filtered by project to see only the relevant tasks. in 2 instances:

  1. As a list to see all the parent tasks relevant to the project
  2. Board grouped by parent to see all sub tasks underneath.

However for the second one, it doesnt work and just groups the parent task in a group called no parent.

If i go to the sub items advanced settings and change the property to parent item instead of sub item, it works and i get the desired result, but then in the 1. and general to do list, sub tasks and general tasks are inverted.

How can i fix this???

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amandabee commented

So you have two databases, one of which has a sub database. Or you can think of it as three databases:

  1. ParentTasks
    1-a. SubTasks
  2. Projects

Every SubTask has exactly one ParentTask, a ParentTask may have zero, one or many Subtasks.

Every Project has one or more ParentTasks and Every ParentTask is part of exactly one Project.

List view works, where you're showing a list of ParentTasks filtered for Project = This Project.

But when you try to show a board of SubTasks, filtered for Project = This Project and grouped by ParentTask, something is breaking down?

If that's all correct, does SubTasks have the Project set explicitly?

Are you using databases that you defined or the built in default Task and Project structure?

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